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...conservatory, where they can study with expert teachers of their instrument and be motivated by the company of other performers? Or go the liberal arts route and continue their non-performance studies?This fall, six students did not have to decide, as Harvard and the New England Conservatory (NEC) launched a joint program for undergraduates. Although the joint curriculum is still tiny, it may well be an answer to the prayers of Harvard musicians who have struggled to obtain institutional support for their performance training.A LONG TIME COMINGYale College currently offers a joint program with Yale’s Graduate...
...Summer Institute in Art Museum Studies at Smith College boasted a new program that aims to teach students how art museums work. WorldTeach, which is based at the Kennedy School of Government, allows individuals to live and work as teachers in developing countries. At another table, the New England Aquarium offered a variety of internships dealing with animal husbandry—jobs that include feeding and cleaning the animals. In spite of the diversity of vendors present, some students said they wanted to see more summer opportunities based in community service. “I think it?...
...ties. How cool is that?The women of “Scene,” although underrepresented in written verbiage, are equally incredible. They only go up to a size 10, and can wear Brooks Brothers shirts without pants—a feat rarely accomplished in the harsh New England winter (then again, one mustn’t forget that those Puritans were of a hardy stock.) “Scene” women are also phenomenally well-versed in sexual lubricant. Who knew that K-Y Jelly is actually gauche? Apparently it’s much like wearing...
...penny loafers, facing the charge of snobbery that’s shadowed his entire career. It’s a charge he seems to embrace.BEING JOHN SIMONIt’s hard work becoming a snob. Simon left his native Yugoslavia as a boy, exploring theater during grade school in England and the United States. He organized one play during a brief stint of “very undistinguished service” at an Air Force professional school, but lacked cooperative actors. “The ones around me wanted to do as little as possible,” he recalls...
...Stone family is a stereotypical New England, bohemian-bourgeoisie brood with Craig T. Nelson (“Coach” and, most recently, the voice of Mr. Incredible in “The Incredibles”) as the patriarch and Hollywood’s hip-mom actress Diane Keaton (“Something’s Gotta Give”) as the matriarch...